Monarch butterflies, says Sonia Altizer, are "globally distributed and best known for undertaking a spectacular annual migration in parts of North America.
This is a repost (with permission) of an article by Mark Bolda (UCCE Santa Cruz Co) from April 27, 2012. The original post and the Strawberry and Caneberry blog can be found at: http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.
If you're growing a tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii) in your yard, you won't need a stop sign or a traffic light to encourage vehicles to slow down--they will automatically when they see this spectacular plant. it's a traffic stopper.
Sometimes it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The common blue damselfly or Northern Bluet (Enallagma cyathigerum) is long and slender like a needle, but a jeweled blue needle.
In this issue... All-Star Project Grand Opening, Regional Field Day, Food Faire/Fashion Revue Wrap Up, County Presentation Day Results, Record Book Workshop, and much more.
Follow-up to Lynn Sosnoskie's 3/6/2012 UC Weed Science blog entry (http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=6967) Here's the NPR story "Farmers Face Tough Choice On Ways To Fight New Strains Of Weeds" (http://www.npr.
Nature's Gallery is absolutely spectacular. You may remember hearing about the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program project when it was displayed in the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2007. Nature's Gallery drew raves then and it's drawing raves now.
